Life
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In the corporate world, the “Annual Review” is often met with a mix of dread and formality. A scary meeting filled with KPIs, performance metrics, and professional goals. But what if we hijacked that structure for something far more important? What if we applied that same rigor to our personal lives? As I have seen…
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I’m a Bollywood music buff. Not the songs bollywood churns out these days, but the older ones till 2015 or so. I used to be an avid collector of audio cassettes and later on CDs. And yes, no one was allowed to touch my collection without my express permission. Of course, there are some songs…
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I love to eat. In my opinion, food is the basis of all things good in life. Isn’t food the foremost expression of love? You may say that food is just a means to provide nutrition to our body and meant for survival and that’s true; but it is also true that food has, for…
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There’s a special kind of love that only a Naani can give. It’s not just in the hugs, the stories, or the little nuggets of wisdom she shares—it’s in the food. For many of us, Naani’s kitchen is the heart of our childhood memories, filled with the scent of freshly cooked meals, warm laughter, that…
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For the love of potatoes.
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Maggi. When I was young, this word would fill my day with happiness. It makes me happy today too; but back then, in my childhood it had a different joy. I grew up in the 90s in a middle class family where home cooked food was the norm and outside food was very rarely allowed.…
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The existential dread. More profound than “to be or not to be,” more pressing than “what is the meaning of life?” I speak, of course, of the eternal struggle: To Eat or Not To Eat? Here in Navi Mumbai, as the sun begins its daily flirtation with the horizon, this question takes on a particularly…
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The rainbow. Nature’s greatest light show, happening right after a storm. But what are the seven colors of the rainbow, really? Let’s break them down. Red – The Bold and the Loud Red is the colour that demands attention. It’s the life of any party, the neon sign, the loudmouth in the room. Whether it’s…
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Recently I took a road trip to Rameshwaram with my family. Whenever we have to travel outside the city, we take road trips but this one was by far the best we have undertaken. From Navi Mumbai to Dhanushkodi, this was a road trip that had lots of fun, food and some frustration all packed…
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If you ask someone what they want the most in life, majority will reply “happiness”. The one thing we all seem to be chasing, in one form or another, is happiness. Some days it feels close, like sunlight through the window on a quiet morning. Other days, it slips through our fingers no matter how…